He saw the advertisement, a glossy page in a fashion magazine. His designs, his sketches, now gracing the runway under another designer's label. The cuts, the fabric combinations, the details… all his.

He threw the magazine across the room, the pages scattering. He paced the floor of his small apartment, the rage building in his chest.

He'd toiled for years, sacrificing everything to build his name. Now, his dreams were being sold as someone else's. He felt a cold, hard fury, a burning need for retribution.

Emotion: scornful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.76 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scornful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 scornful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scornful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scornful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.406
C0.391
S0.276
I0.268
0.243
Suppressed:
own-0.396
unexpectedly-0.288
Suddenly-0.260
soon-0.256
serendip-0.256